A Christian Surrogate Mother. 1996-2008 All Rights Reserved . 11/18/2008 <http://christianblogs.christianet.com/1147469391.htm>.
Favoring Surrogate Mothers
    1. Jesus was about sacrifice
    2. Its giving life not taking it away
    3. Mary was a surrogate mother.
    4. It's a gift
    5. No biblical foundation not supporting surrogate children
    6. Each life is planned no matter the circumstance
    7. There's nothing wrong with helping someone who is unable to have a child have one.
    8. It shouldn't be anyone elses choice how people decide to have a family.
    9. God decides all so if its happening it's not wrong
    10. You are a selflessness person if you choice to be the surrogate mother
    11. Jesus was a surrogate child
    12. People belive that if god is leading you to do it weither in there eyes its right or wrong, then you should follow full heartedly the direction your being lead
    13. God made people intellegent enough to come up with this process why would it be bad?

Against Surrogate Mothers
  1. You don't own your own body, its not yours to do with it as you want, but what god wants
  2. Some believe that surrogacy causes fornication between the surrogate mother.
  3. Mary didn't have a choice she was chosen.
  4. People think its wrong because your paying for the process
  5. Its illegal to sell kids why should this be any different
  6. Its a sinful act of adultry
  7. The child wouldn't biologically be yours
  8. Adoption is a better choice, your helping a child who was already brought into this world have a better life
  9. Dont play god
  10. If god wanted them to have children they would be able to
  11. You should only have children throuhg normal means
  12. Your sperm and eggs shouldnt be sold
  13. Marry didnt choose to be a surrogant
  14. Mary didn't pay for her child
  15. Mary didn't didnt have the option of helping another couple out there was never another couple in the equation
In the middle
  1. No one knows if its right or wrong bibically
  2. Know the risks and laws before taking on the task, it is not for everyone


Aigen, Betsy . MOTIVATIONS OF SURROGATE MOTHERS. 1996 The American Surrogacy Center. 11/18/2008 http://www.surrogacy.com/psychres/article/motivat.html.
  1. Accepted
  2. Positive emotional experience who feel they would gain from helping others
  3. High frustration tolerence and ego strength
  4. People choose to follow the physical and emotional demands
  5. Hisotry of positive pregnancy
  6. Positive relationships with their own children if any
  7. Supportive home environment (adaquet environment)
Rejected people to surrogacy
  1. Expression of conflict over the responsibility required
  2. Uncertanty over their comfortability level
  3. Anxious about social critisim
  4. Overly motivated by the money
  5. Experiencing to much difficulty inthe surrendering the baby
  6. Likely to suffer servere loss reaction
  7. If in the middle of a life crisis such as divorce, death, idenity cisis, etc
  8. People trying to use the role as a way to deal with a tramatic situation given to them in life.
  9. Anyone that might show signs of changing their mind a lot
  10. Bad emotional condition( depressed, immature, unstable, etc.
  11. Judged as dishonest and untrustworthy
  12. Not a stable invironment
Surrogate Mothers Interveiws
  1. 90 min each
  2. Emotional health test
  3. Questions about their life, past, future, qualities
  4. Doctors have to write a summary of the participants who give them interviews
  5. Have to stay on list for atleast 3 years
  6. Ask them about there feelings and stability
  7. They ask about there medical history and there childhood

Method
  1. Infertile or physically incapable of carrying or developing fetus.
  2. Woman that choose to be surrogate mothers usually social underclass
  3. This is perceived as making them vulnerable to being exploited by reproductiviely prostituting themselves.
  4. Surrogate mothers are assumed to suffer troumatic experience from losing their child.
  5. Choosing to have a baby for someone else is reprehensible, represents irejection

Be a Surrogate Mother . 2004-2008 Robot co-op. 11/18/2008 <http://www.43things.com/things/view/258163/be-a-surrogate-mother>.
  1. The entire process is more involved and intense then people think
  2. Counseling evaluations for everyone, physical exams, shots, pills, agreements to abstain from sex, and a huge legal side on top of it all
  3. Even if people agree lawyers go over every tiny detail to make you fully aware of what your getting yourself into.
  4. Dont be a surrogate if you arent entirely comfortable with the other person or people your doing this with
  5. Be firm with what you want and expect
  6. But be flexible and prepared for all the " what ifs"
  7. Get good explanations from the doctors and the other medical staff
  8. Progesterone gel is preferable to the shots ( it is more expensive)
  9. The shots you get in your legs at first arent as intense and the ones you get down the road in your back
  10. Surrogacy is illegal in Michigan, Washington, New York, New Mexico, and Arizonia
  11. People sometimes winde up hurting themselves due to depriving themselves of every day routines such as medicines they take everyday.
  12. Make sure you establish a good relationsip
  13. Some individuals want to help people because of there problem or cituation, others want to help them and just like to be pregnant as well

Become a Surrogate Mom. 2008 Surrogate mother, agency, pay for surrogate mothers, become a surrogate mother. 11/18/2008 <http://becomeasurrogatemom.com/>.
  1. You have a lot of things to go threw before even being excepted to get or be a surrogate mother
  2. The match for couple isnt choosen by a list, its choosen but the personality
  3. Not everyone is excepted
  4. The mother to be and the carrier mother both have vital roles through the pregnancy
  5. You both have to go threw a screening test to assure your right for surrogacy
  6. Backround checks are required as well
  7. An attorney is met to make sure your insurence will cover the pregnancy requirments
  8. If you dont have medical insurence you cannot apply
  9. Carrier mother will be fertile screened and asked to monitor menstral cycle
  10. They match the " couples" up by the screening tests
  11. Mother to be will then look over the choice made for her and decide whether they want that carrier or not
  12. Then choosen a metting is set up betwen both couples
  13. Theyre will be a counselor present during the first meeting
  14. If agreed to be together a contract will be made.
  15. 2 different choices: artifical insemination or vitro fertilization
  16. The carrier get to tell the Mother to be when she becomes pregnanat
  17. Suggest you keep in contact with mother to be once every 2 weeks through pregnancy
  18. You could also go the the doctor visits together
  19. Carriers will not be help responsible for changing diapers or feeding after birth
  20. Surrogate mothers get pain generously
  21. Some surrogate mothes stay close to the family years throughout
  22. The matching process cannot be rushed
  23. Both couple get physically and metally tested
  24. They payment to the surrogate mother is held in a trust through the pregnancy ----

Jones, Joanna. Becomming a Surrogant . Sept 28, 2008 Suite 101. 11/21/2008 <http://infertility.suite101.com/article.cfm/becoming_a_surrogate>.

Reasons for surrogacy
  1. No wombs
  2. Traditional IVF impossible
  3. Abnormally formed womb
  4. Health conditions such as heart problems
  5. No success from IVF
  6. People want to try any possible way to have their own biological child before adaption
  7. Straight- surrogate mother uses her own egg which is then fertilized with the infertile womens husbands sperm
  8. Can be done with home kit
  9. Host- intended mothers eggs and husbands sperm are used to impregnate the surrogate
  10. Child would be biologically related to mother and is done at IVF clinic
  11. Woman who have had a hysterectomy
  12. Woman with Ashermans syndrom or antoher condition where they cant implant into the womb
  13. Dangerouse or life threatening conditions to where they cant go through delivery
Requirements
  1. You have at least one child and have preferably finished having your family
  2. You are under 36
  3. Good health
  4. No genetically or infectous dieseases
  5. Good emotional health or depression
  6. Your immune to Rubella
  7. You arent payed for having the baby your payed for the time off of work, vitamins, clothes, doctors bills etc.


How Many Kids Get Abused in The U.S. 2008 Wiki Answers. 11/20/2008 <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_kids_get_abused_in_the_the_US>.

How many kids get abused in the U.S
  1. Over 30,000 reports of child abuse and neglect a year
  2. Child protective services recieved 2 million reports of alleged child abuse and neglect
  3. 3 million children were reported as alleged victims of abse
  4. 44 stated provided data due to race- 55% of all victims were white 27% were African American 2% were Native American 1 % Hispanic and 1% Asian and 3% were unknown
  5. Data from 49 states avuse rate of 15 victims per 1,000 children under the age of 18
  6. Those 49 states also reported 523,049 victims were nelected, 244,903 were physically abused 126,095 victims were sexually abused and 44,648 were emotionally abused
  7. Femals were more often identified as the perpertrators then the males
  8. Common age for males preditors was 37 years old
  9. Femal preditos average age was 34 ----

Clendenin, Jay. How Surrogacy Works. 1998-2008 How Stuff Works. 11/20/2008 <http://health.howstuffworks.com/surrogacy.htm>.

How Surrogacy Works

  1. Infertility affects more than 7 million people int he U.S
  2. 12% of woman of childbearing age are considered infertile
  3. 3% of cases require more advanced techniques such as donor insemination
  4. In 2002, the number of surrogate births were around 550
  5. There are about 100-150 births that occur annually in India

INFERTILITY INCREASES IN YOUNG WOMEN. Febuay 10 1983 The New York Tims. 11/20/2008 <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9D04E6DE143BF933A25751C0A965948260>.
  1. More than 3 million married American woman say they want to have kids but are physically unable to concieve
  2. A study document marked increase of younger couple who are medically unable to have children
  3. Rise may reult from the increasing case of sterility- causeing diseases
  4. In 1976 study concluded 45% of nations nearly 27.5 million couple have been unable to have children or had difficulty in conceiving 19% were sterilized for a reason 10% were sterilized for medical reasons 16% weer unable to have children for other reasons
  5. One reason that causes sterility is Gonnorhea another reason is woman using intrauterin birth control and pelvic inflammatory disease

Woman and Surrogacy . 2007 Coron Institue. 11/20/2005 <http://www.coronafertility.com/>.
  1. In 2002 12 % of woman age 15-44 or 7.3 million woman had a physically difficulty getting pregnant
  2. Thie represents a 2 % increase from 1988 and 1995
  3. Surrogacy had doubled from 1997-2000 and reached 548 in 2002
  4. Doctors see about 35 to 40 new people a month
  5. About 30 % of the couples need third pary reproduction
  6. 80 percent use egg donors and 20 % use surrogacy

Nourian, Mory . Frequently Asked Question. May 1, 2006 USA gov. 11/20/2008 <http://www.4women.gov/faq/infertility.cfm>.

  1. About 12% of women 7.3 million in the United States aged 15-44 have difficulty getting pregnant on carrying full term
  2. Lifertility isnt always womans problem
  3. About 1/3 of cases are female related
  4. About 1/3 of case are a micture of male and femal factors
  5. Infertility in males mostly cause by low sperm producing few or non at all
  6. Another problem is sperm reaching the egg
  7. Abnormale sperm shape of structure
  8. Sometimes a man is born with problems that affect his sperm
  9. Increasing mans risk of infertility- alchohol, drugs, environmental toxins, including pesticides and lead
  10. Smoking ciggarettes
  11. Health problems
  12. Medicines, age
  13. Radiation treatment and chemothrapy for cancer
  14. Infertility in a woman ovulation-with out it eggs to be fertilized
  15. SIgns that woman isnt ovulating normally include irregular or absent menstral periods
  16. Blocked fallopian tubes due to pelvic disease
  17. Physical problems with the uterus
  18. Uterince fibroids
  19. Things that can effect womans ability to have a baby
  20. Age stress poor diet, athletic training
  21. Being over weight or underweight, tabacco, smoking
  22. Alcohol, sexually, transmitted diseases
  23. Health problems and hormonal change
  24. Age effects womans ability
  25. Ability of womans ovaries to release eggs ready for fertilization declines with age
  26. The health of womans eggs declines with age
  27. As woman age they have more health problems
  28. Risk of miscarriage increaes
  29. Irregular periods or no mentral periods
  30. Very painful periods
  31. Endomtriosis
  32. Pelvic inflammatory disease
  33. More then one miscarriage
  34. No matter how old you are its always a good idea to tak to a doctor
  35. Record changes happening to your body
  36. Record texture of her cervical mucus
  37. Use home evaluation test kit